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Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Blood cultures • CXR ... early disease) • CXR ... Pathogens: • Aerobic Bacteria ... • Anaerobic Bacteria ... Lung Abscess Differential
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Miliary Pattern - Chest ... - Select Bacteria ... Miliary #Pattern #Chest ... #Radiology #differential ... diagnosis #pulmonary #CXR
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
and Management Differential ... Troponin), ABG, STAT CXR ... , CTA Chest, Echocardiogram ... Aspiration/PNA: antibiotics ... diagnosis #Management #treatment
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Loss of weight • Chest ... high-resolution chest ... cultures (sputum for bacteria ... mycobacteria Treatment ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary #differential
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
• Pleuritic chest ... infiltrate by chest ... or CT Scan Bacterial ... Yield of blood CX ... 96.1% • Empiric antibiotic
Incidental Finding of Oleothorax - A chest radiograph showed a dense opacity in the upper area
Oleothorax - A chest ... The differential ... her history of treatment ... Clinical #PCC #Radiology ... #CXR #Oleothorax
Cavitation - Pneumonia
In virulent pyogenic infections an abscess may form within the consolidated lung as a
be seen on the chest ... one month after treatment ... with antibiotics ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest #